MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS IN SCOTLAND DURING 1902 149 



and Isles Skerry vore, March 28, rush, Thrushes, Blackbirds, 

 Starlings, and Larks ; April 6, a flock, flying past ; May 9, at lantern, 

 midnight; Sept. 26-27, at lantern, striking with other birds; Sept. 

 29, very numerous all night, several killed; Oct. 6, at lantern, with 

 Pipits; Nov. 5, in rush, with Thrushes, Blackbirds, etc. Dhuheartach, 

 Feb. 23, numbers all night, with Thrushes, Blackbirds, Redwings, 

 etc. ; March 1-6, numbers at light; Sept. i and 8, numbers, with 

 Wagtails, Pipits, etc. Solway Maxwelltown, Oct. i o, many on the 

 move. 



CYPSELUS APUS (Swift). 



Orkney Sule Skerry, Aug. 12, four passed S. Moray 

 Fochabers, May 19 ; last, Aug. 22. Dee Aberdeen, May 18, one; 

 Aug. 26, last seen. Peterhead, May 19. Crimond, Sept. 21, 

 several; Sept. 25, one. Toy Blackford, May 5. Bell Rock, 

 June 15, one rested in window of tower, caught. Arbroath, Aug. 

 2 r, last, some days later than usual. Forth Linlithgow, May 3, 

 two. Isle of May, May 24, two. Kirkliston, Sept. 12, one. Tweed 

 Cramilt, May 17, one passing W. Argyll and Isles Skerryvore, 

 May 30 ; June 2, one. Clyde Kilbirnie, April 23. Lendalfoot, 

 May 2. Carmichael, Sept. 2, two ; 5th, one. Sohvay Maxwell- 

 town, May 9, a pair arrived and went straight into their nesting 

 hole; none others seen till May 25; Aug. 3, general body left. 

 Auchencairn, Aug. 21, two. 



Earliest, Clyde, Kilbirnie, April 23. 



CAPRIMULGUS EUROP^EUS (Nightjar). 

 Forth -Isle of May, June 2, one. Clyde Lamlash, May 1 7. 



DENDROCOPUS MAJOR (Great Spotted Woodpecker). 



Forth Stirling, Jan. 7, one from Touch ; May 5, nest near 

 Salton, young got safely away ("Annals" 1903, p. 49). Tweed 

 Hawick, May 10, breeding in Minto, Wells, and Weem woods. 

 Cramilt, July 28, a pair; have only seen one here before. Argyll 

 and Isles Taynuilt, Jan. 17, shot at Inverawe, rare visitor in the 

 west (op.cit., 1902, p. 119). 



UPUPA EPOPS (Hoopoe). 



Moray April 26, shot in a fir wood near Loch Spynie. Forth 

 -Dunbar, April 22, on or about, one killed. 



CUCULUS CANORUS (Cuckoo). 



Moray Fochabers, May 2. Dee Thainston, April 29, heard. 

 Aberdeen, April 30, one. Tay Auchinblae, April 19, heard. 



